East Pasadena, CA
East Pasadena, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Pasadena at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,004 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Pasadena at the 76th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Pasadena's buildings actually sit
91.9% of East Pasadena's 3,004 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
East Pasadena against the rest of the country
Inside California, East Pasadena sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 75th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Pasadena ranks 7,777 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,046 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Pasadena
East Pasadena's 75th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in East Pasadena
With 91.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Pasadena gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where East Pasadena's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Pasadena's 7,777-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Pasadena's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.